Event Information

Venue(s):
Kelly and Leon's Minstrels Hall (720 Broadway)

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 June 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Feb 1868, Evening
25 Feb 1868, Evening
26 Feb 1868, Evening
27 Feb 1868, Evening
28 Feb 1868, Evening
29 Feb 1868, Evening

Program Details

The Grand Dutch S included Offenbach's "Voici le sabre de mon pére."

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 February 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 29 February 1868, 375.
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 29 February 1868, 374.

“The Burlesque of the ‘Dutch S,’ which has attracted overflowing houses to Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels every night since this first production, continues on the bills for the present week. Taken on the whole, it is one of the best burlesques we have ever seen in a minstrel hall, and the excellent manner in which it has been placed upon the stage and performed throughout fully entitles it to all the encores it is meeting with.”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 March 1868, 382.

“Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels are attracting crowded houses to witness their last and most successful burlesque of ‘The Grand Dutch S,’ which is now in its fifth week. The managers are deserving of this success, for they have kept up a consistent succession of novelties. They not only produce fresh acts and new burlesques, but put them on the stage in a manner never surpassed by any minstrel troupe. Richer and handsomer dresses we have never seen than those worn by Nelse Seymour and Leon himself, who has no less than three changes in less than twenty minutes, each one handsomer than the other. During the past week great improvements were made in the stage, and several traps made preparatory to another burlesque, which is in preparation.”